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whereismymind
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom717 Posts
March 18 2013 16:01 GMT
#101
jimmy noooooooo
one day.. i'll lose my mind
lorestarcraft
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1049 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-18 16:01:48
March 18 2013 16:01 GMT
#102
He was such a whiner i'm kinda glad he's gone.
SC2 Mapmaker
HoLe
Profile Joined August 2012
Canada183 Posts
March 18 2013 16:04 GMT
#103
Sucks to lose a terran but I never really cared about him.
Somebody linked this tweet on a previous page and I remembered that dickish aura he carried around with him back when I was following the game more.

Terran.
roachra
Profile Joined June 2012
14 Posts
March 18 2013 16:08 GMT
#104
not a huge loss, i agree...he was so negative
puderle
Profile Joined March 2013
10 Posts
March 18 2013 16:08 GMT
#105
--- Nuked ---
aTnClouD
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Italy2428 Posts
March 18 2013 16:12 GMT
#106
On March 19 2013 01:04 HoLe wrote:
Sucks to lose a terran but I never really cared about him.
Somebody linked this tweet on a previous page and I remembered that dickish aura he carried around with him back when I was following the game more.

https://twitter.com/ClouDsc2/status/303909364723511298

He wrote at me like a dick, I responded in the exact same manner + I don't know him and his opinion was completely irrelevant to me, only a saint would have answered in any other way. Other progamers don't answer this kind of stuff but it can piss you off when random people just come and make statements about stuff they know nothing about. And that's also what I expressed at the end of my blog. It's fine though, doing this you learn the haters are just more vocal, and you either pull a completely politically correct persona or you ignore them. The other option is not giving a fuck, but that's not as easy to market right now, and that's why most progamers choose the other two options.
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/hunter692007/kruemelmonsteryn0.gif
TortoiseCa
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada104 Posts
March 18 2013 16:15 GMT
#107
Sounds like this guy had his share of haters. I started reading some of the post and I think he was coming from the same place as most of us (nerd uses game as form of escape)

IDK who he is but people posting troll rage twitter comments about him doesn't seem like u can blame the guy too much..
SfynX
Profile Joined July 2012
United Kingdom83 Posts
March 18 2013 16:22 GMT
#108
Its never good to see a player leave the scene, althought he didnt get much in regards to placement in premier tournys he was still a somewhat solid terran and streamer.
GL ClouD
Al Bundy
Profile Joined April 2010
7257 Posts
March 18 2013 16:29 GMT
#109
My job isn't that fun too... Maybe I should quit. Anyway, thanks for providing us with entertaining games Hopefully we'll see you again in the scene
o choro é livre
BrassMonkey27
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada616 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-18 16:37:51
March 18 2013 16:33 GMT
#110
Its a shame you didn't want to give HOTS a shot with Terran. With Widow mines, Ravens and Ferarri-vacs your good mechanics would have shone through and perhaps you could've exceeded your WoL results.

Always enjoyed you at HSC - especially those casts with Fuzer.
I wish you luck with whatever you plan on doing post-esports. Hopefully we get to see you doing a cameo appearance on the ladder sometime.

To all the people who get rubbed the wrong way by some tweets: grow a spine! Cloud isn't afraid to speak his mind, for better or for worse. A large portion of the Starcraft community can be such politically correct bleeding hearts.. I respect a person who can say a controversial statement in the public eye. Its the people who denounce it purely on the grounds that they disagee that piss me off.
HoneyBadger.784 Diamond KR "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
iiGreetings
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada563 Posts
March 18 2013 16:36 GMT
#111
This is a bit of a suprise honestly, thanks for everything cloud you will be missed in the scene.
Adapt and React I MKP, PartinG, EffOrt ♥
VKCA
Profile Joined September 2011
Canada391 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-18 16:40:15
March 18 2013 16:38 GMT
#112
Yeah...
maybe we can get some good foreign terrans now?
Alexstrasas
Profile Joined August 2010
302 Posts
March 18 2013 16:44 GMT
#113
On March 19 2013 01:33 BrassMonkey27 wrote:
Its a shame you didn't want to give HOTS a shot with Terran. With Widow mines, Ravens and Ferarri-vacs your good mechanics would have shone through and perhaps you could've exceeded your WoL results.



Dude have you saw MLG? Widow Mines are a joke.


Besides like Cloud himself said:

For someone like me who likes the competition and the challenge Starcraft2 was not really the right game. It's a way easier game than Starcraft, attaining progamer skills didn't take a third of the effort as it used to take before and the luck factor was a huge thing to consider. Honestly to me, used to such a competitive game as Starcraft, it felt more like playing poker rather than a real time strategy game.


All it takes is 1 storm man, 1 storm and you lose.

They didnt fixed mech so its going to be another year of MMM.

You cant blame him for trying Protoss and/or leaving.

The_Darkness
Profile Joined December 2011
United States910 Posts
March 18 2013 16:48 GMT
#114
On March 18 2013 21:14 aTnClouD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2013 21:12 Wildmoon wrote:
This is for the best. I have seen many times about how he doesn't like SC2 and doesn't think it's a good game but he played it for his own reasons. I was wondering back then how could you force yourself to do that? The difference in his play and the player who play with passion and enjoy the game such as Life show through their game. I don't need to say which is more fun to watch.

I feel the same way. As Steve Jobs said here, you have to love what you do to do a great job. Yet I can say I really tried my best to like SC2 and this experience gave me a lot, so I am happy I did it even though I was very doubtful about SC2 from the beginning.

It's not true, whether or not Jobs said it. You do not have to love what you do to do a great job. I went to school with plenty of people who did not like school a tremendous amount but were among the best students in the nation, and I now work with professionals who are the very best in their respective fields, and very, very few of them loves what he or she does. You can be better than just about everyone simply by having and cultivating an outstanding work ethic and discipline, assuming you're at least moderately talented. Do you think all of the KESPA players who are dedicating 12 hours a day to SCII love SCII? That's preposterous. I'm sure plenty of foreign players love SCII and would still be destroyed by the current KESPA b-team (which is in fact what happened when MLG ran the MVP invitational or whatever it was called). The hardworking professional player will almost always beat the passionate (but comparatively lazy) player. In every sport this is the way it works. SCII is no exception.

As a general matter, you will be much more successful in life if you're able to work extremely hard at even the things you don't like doing. If you're the type of person who can only work hard at something when you're "passionate" about it, good luck with that.

I note that whatever you do next it's hard to imagine it won't require a great deal more time and effort than you put into SCII and will likely be extraordinarily more dull. On the bright side, at least you'll be able to make enough money to survive on.
To be is to be the value of a bound variable.
Ettick
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States2434 Posts
March 18 2013 16:48 GMT
#115
I can't say I didn't see this coming to be honest considering how ClouD's results have been unimpressive for the last few months, but it's still almost never a good thing for someone to leave the scene, especially if they're a fairly well known player like ClouD.
padfoota
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Taiwan1571 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-18 16:52:48
March 18 2013 16:51 GMT
#116
Man really, ignore the haters
All you need is "hf, and gl"

Hope you make it big somewhere
Stop procrastinating
Destro
Profile Joined September 2009
Netherlands1206 Posts
March 18 2013 16:54 GMT
#117
i cant say ill miss such a negative person in the community.
bring back weapon of choice for hots!
Technique
Profile Joined March 2010
Netherlands1542 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-18 17:03:47
March 18 2013 17:02 GMT
#118
Cloud doesn't sound arrogant to me at all actually... why is everyone saying this?

Clearly just a very competitive guy who didn't actually like sc2 all that much... i kinda get him tbh, sc2 ain't that great and there is no other game for competitive rts players...
If you think you're good, you suck. If you think you suck, you're getting better.
SupLilSon
Profile Joined October 2011
Malaysia4123 Posts
March 18 2013 17:05 GMT
#119
Damn, it's sad there's so many people who dislike you soley because you speak your mind and there's some ridiculous taboo surrounding balance on TL. It was obvious to anyone in masters or above that the game was imbalanced for a while and that Terran took disproportionate amounts of effort and skill compared to the other 2 races. HotS is working to fix that but still don't expect to see any foreign Terrans making a mark on the scene. I don't blame him for retiring, I wouldn't be slaving away at this game either if I was beginning my 20s, with tons of other opportunities available to me. GL in the future ClouD, it was always nice to have a pro come give his input on TL.
ZeeSC2
Profile Joined May 2011
United States134 Posts
March 18 2013 17:30 GMT
#120
It's always really sad to see progamers retire
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